Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18T22:24:08Z

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 tridge@samba.org wrote:
>
> The second basic fact that I think is relevant is that its not
> possible to do case-insensitive filesystem operations efficiently
> without the filesystem having knowledge of the fact that you want a
> case-insensitive lookup.

That's not my problem. That is _your_ problem, and I don't care. I
disagree violently with the notion that we would push this down to a
filesystem level.

Sorry, but there are limits to how much we care about broken operating
systems.

Linus